skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The remaining quotes:

C++: "So you like long compile times and incomprehensible error messages? That's cool, we do too"

Java: "So you're a believer in AbstractMethodFactoryBeans? That's cool, we all have our vices"

Python: "So you enjoy the paradigm of backtrace-driven development? That's cool, everyone gets a bit tired of static typing once in a while"

C: "So you think OOP is for hipsters? That's cool, we all get nostalgic sometimes"

Javascript: "So you're a dynamic individual who thinks that, underneath, everything is an object? That's cool, we like to dream as well"

For Rust, it just sends you directly to it's site.
Yes. Google hasn't removed it yet though (apparently some Google properties use it, so there is a conflict of interest here with web standards).
There are other ways to contribute to Mozilla (beyond coding) listed on http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/.

Some of their web projects have amazing documentation for new contributors, such as Kitsune's documentation: http://kitsune.readthedocs.org/
> Lots of people (myself included) had been saying that Facebook was overvalued pre-IPO.

You could have shorted the stock or traded options.

Before you short any stock, it is wise to keep in mind the maxim "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent". This isn't really a problem on the long side (sans margin), but is a real problem on the short side.
Still no Windows Phone 8 SDK
Do unicycles have freewheeling hubs? I don't think so.
It can be a matter of interpretation. Suppose two "highly competent" programmers A1 and A2 and two "moderately competent" programmers B1 and B2 are together.

If A1 asks those questions to B1, I suspect that A2 would view them as perfectly normal, appropriate and helpful, while B2 might view them as aggressive or "trying to show A1's superiority".
Sorry apparently I was wrong about OpenMP support, not there right now but there is a C/C++ compiler with OpenCL.
So, I never really thought about contributing to anything Mozilla was actively developing.

This site definetly did a good job of directing me in the right direction. Its a good idea IMO.
Great idea, this is a new one for me. Thanks for the tip.
When I try that link, I get "The test API key has been deprecated. To use the Last.fm API you'll need to get an API account."

And believe me, lots of the albums that I have do not have covers on last.fm. Nor Amazon, for that matter -- and Amazon has had a bad habit of guessing very wrongly at cover art for some of them. It's bad enough I've started adding cover art on my own just to keep Amazon from making albums look ridiculous when I download them to my phone...
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> “I will need ______ (tool/condition) to complete this task”

Yeah, this one is nonsense. I think I see what the author meant, though. Consider this conversation:

Engineer: “I will need ______ (tool/condition) to complete this task”
Manager: "You can't have it"

IME, great engineers distinguish themselves by their reply:

Bad Engineer: "Then I guess we can't do it"
Good Engineer: "Hmm...what if we had these other things?"
Great Engineer: "Hmm...what if we solved this other problem?"

There's some overlap, of course, but my experience is that good engineers find creative ways to deliver the feature, while great engineers find creative ways to solve the problem, if you see what I mean.
I don't know why you would want to do this but I upvoted just for the audacity of such a service.
http://i.imgur.com/YkfpE.png?1
Faking it + grit + inspiration =?
Honestly, I expected the rear hub to lock with backpedaling reminiscent of training bikes. Looks like I join the negativity train here in that it looks less comfortable and certainly is less stable than your normal bicycle. And it doesn't solve size issues well compared to folding commuter bikes.

Looks like a novel take on the bicycle (perhaps for an industrial design course/exercise?) but the weight savings don't cut it.
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For what it's worth, the specs say the rear steering has a lockout.
"At the last minute before launch, they pulled all EA titles from their service. When rival Gaikai got the rights to offer demos for EA games (not to actually sell them,) CEO Steve Perlman went batshit-crazy irate and pulled the plug."

Yikes, that's not a library at all. Think of this analogy "My local library was going to offer the most recent Stross novel, but it turns out that's available at the library in the next town, so they had a book burning party instead"
It's a really nice product and the price is just right IMHO.
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ARM adds 64-bit support to server system IP
Strangely enough, that's comforting!
Perhaps they meant "new for Google."
SmoothLife - Conway's Game of Life variant with floats instead of ints
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Do you speak Bocce?
Which, of course, would be perfectly fine with the labels.
"Fanboy Trap", it seems to work.
Taiwan asks Apple to blur satellite image of new early warning radar
Whoops sorry about that, must have the wrong API key, I'll get that fixed. (EDIT: now fixed)

Well last.fm is user-uploaded content too, I'm unsure how the MB archive will be superior to their collection.
Everything went smoothly on every machine I own, you were unlucky. What's the dud?

I like the idea as well, it allows every developer out there to find a project related to Mozilla they can help with. Too bad it ends up very quickly on a hard to read Wiki page (I have never liked those).
Please include 'http' in your links to make it click-able.
Another question:

I'd like to add a "live demo" of the product in action but I'm afraid of people ripping the source or doing a file > save as hence the video on the homepage. Any ideas on how I can show the product without the source being ripped?
They're easier to get rid of, for a start, and that makes it harder to establish firm relationships and long-term projects.
I'm not sure I understand the logic here. Wouldn't any nation wanting to know where the early warning radar array is just look for blurs on the map?
Author here, points well taken, and your illustration is pretty close to my intent. I'd say regarding a specific tool, a great engineer could probably solve the problem at hand effectively without having to rely on any one specific tool. If you work for a company that has standardized technology roadmaps where certain tools are forbidden (think regulated industries, some gov't), a great engineer will know of or find another tool to use within those guidelines.

Regarding a specific condition, I could see where there are times when one may need to solve another problem.
Codeq
Ditto. I'm not sure what it's useful for, but it's very odd. And odd is good.
I think there is a difference between "I will need..." and "Ideally we should use...". In the former, there is an implication that the only solution is the tool stated, while in the later, there is an understanding that the solution is possible without the tool, albeit not the best.

My reading of that statement was not that good engineers won't use the right tool for the job, but rather will use the best they can, and deal with imperfections. Almost as a rephrasing of the old adage: "'Tis a poor carpenter that blames his tools".

There are often factors outside the control of the engineers that dictate certain things that can and cannot be used. Sometimes they are political and sometimes they are more technical. The ability to get things done in spite of externally imposed limitations is something that should be praised. Even something as simple as the choice of platform can be a cause of not using the ideal solution... say there are only X, Y and Z allowed languages - using the cool library for language W is off the table, even though it is highly regarded as the correct and best solution.
vapour, it's not going to happen.

anyone who wants to crunch massive amount of data or utilize ridiculous amount of cpu cycles can spin up multiple instances in the cloud.
Pressure grows for crackdown on high-frequency trading
Nicely done, I think the next step is to add granularity so that the user can focus on one particular region and get more detail.
Non print link: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1108/Imminen...
"So you have a fetish for pointer types? That's cool, we all get tired of monogamy eventually."
What's the point in having such a RAM/core ratio? By assigning 4 threads per core (which is fairly common to exploit manycore architectures) you don't even have 4Meg of memory per thread.

I would totally agree that memory constraint is sort of tied to manycore architectures, but in this case I find it pushed to the limits.
Oh, I opened that. I just meant my favorite - check out my cool tool posts include samples of cool tool being cool. :)
Everyone using Rust professionally seems to be already employed by mozilla.
I think a lot of the people who write articles like this forget that Windows 7 still exists for the "hard-core desktop users" (yes, I claim I fall into that category, although I'm an Xubuntu user as well). Realistically though, Windows 7 is on extended support until 2020, so that's 8 solid years of use remaining. And for an OS that currently holds around half of the entire market, I'd say we're far from a "post-Windows" world.

And assuming this picture is accurate, then Windows 8 will actually be very good for Microsoft; who wouldn't love to have an x86-based Windows 8 tablet that can do as much as a full-fledged desktop (albeit with a bit less performance)?
In my experience, passion is key.

I consider great engineers to be engineers who get things done and their solution stands up to review over time.

These types of answers are usually tell-tale signs of engineers that are harder to work. But from my 20+ years experience, they are not necessarily a sign of engineers lacking passion.

I've found great engineers who said the following:

* I have no idea how it works (he was talking about Windows and explaining why he preferred Linux)

* I've learned all I've ever want to know about... (he was talking about Visual Basic)

* There is no solution... (reaching a consensus every time)

* I'm an expert in Ruby (he was)

* I don't understand the business... (I'm just trying to make great software)

edit: I removed the Jeff Bezos line. This came from a keynote he made at Stanford. He was really saying that he doesn't pay much attention to his competitors.
The license has been updated to better reflect the original intent. It was never meant to be as restrictive as it was. If there are any other suggestions or concerns, let me know.
T61: Died one week out of warranty. Lenovo later did a recall and out-of-warranty repair of a design flaw, but forgot to tell us before the recall window closed.

T420: Weeks on order, canceled, resurrected, re-canceled, repeat. Took about three months for delivery.

T420: Overheated and died. Fixed under warranty.

X100e: Runs very, very hot. Expecting this to die soon.

Lesson: Get the warranty or you'll be sorry.

Another lesson: Given the cost of the warranty, there are better machines out there.
I have no sympathy for you either. What you doing is not investing in stocks based on rational decisions that are based on financial statements; you are simply using stock market as a gambling machine. Like a gambler who lost $10k but now is back with another $5k and is "winning back" his lost. But its only temporarily. Noone in his sound mind would invest into Facebook at such a P/E [1]. Yes the stock was up for couple days but its back to south and never broke is downtrend. See you at $8, together with Zynga from $14 to $.40. What are going to do then?? Buy more just to try to "win back"?

And also, can you define "expected to go down for a while". I think you rather meant that you expected this stock to lose a little bit of value [after you bought], but is it still in your stop-loss scenario (never heard any reasonable investor with 18% down stop loss).

[1] And please, lets stop comparing it to Amazon P/E. Why would you compare a company that makes tons of money for years based on the principle that humans need to buy products, with a temporary-trend where company makes money on annyoing ads that nobody wants or likes?
What was the reasoning for including pagination in the layout? I understand how that would work for news articles (more pages == more ads) but for a catalog I don't see the positives.
I agree, they certainly don't represent the entirety of the future of manufacturing. (title written for dramatic purposes & the sake of simplicity).

However, I do believe that 3d printing will launch a paradigm shift in certain consumer behaviors, due to the creative possibilities it opens up. This, combined with the availability of diverse "open source" designs on the internet, will allow individuals and small businesses to provide customized solutions to a variety of problems they face.

Additionally, learnings from the technology will transform how manufacturing is done for select items/goods. For example, toys can be created cheaply and with greater customization - reaching niche markets at lower costs for smaller players.

There will always be hype when innovative technologies receive public praise. However, I think that discounting the new opportunities it unlocks would be unwise - especially for entrepreneurial types (like me).

Point taken.
Building a GitHub for the physical world.
Yes, but the guy I replied to said he scrubbed it, which implies that they did not prevent anything from being logged, but instead they cleaned it up afterwards. Thus the reason for me saying what I did.
Office for iOS and Android reportedly confirmed, due March 2013
I'd love to see more information from people with many drives about reliability.

The well known Google study was interesting.
I wouldn't call it photoshop, but did you have something like this in mind: http://pjtops.com/app/neonTextEffects/
I know +1's don't help but ditto from me.

I haven't had time to use TS much yet but the combination of structural type system (not needing to inherit from IFoo, if you have the members it's enough) and optional typing look like exactly what I want.

Hopefully this pays off in terms of not only self-descriptive code but also greater support for refactoring tools.
My first thought upon seeing this was, "Where are the statistics so that you know if you are just ahead by chance?"

My second thought was, "Testing is so much better than not testing, this is still worthwhile."

Seriously, if you aren't testing, do it. If you are, this is something to graduate out of.
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Cut out everything but the last sentence, hit send. Good for a long form blog post, utterly terrible as an email to a recruiter. Lots of great, and perfectly valid points presented, just not the right material to turn down a job/interview offer.
Ask HN: Review my start up www.Varely.com
We just launched a little over a week ago and have gotten some good response to the actual content. We've seen an alright amount of traffic but haven't been able to get many sign ups so far. I am curious to see what everyones opinion is and any feedback you may have. Thanks!
What is the functional difference between a slider and a button?
No. A unicycle with an added front wheel to lean on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXmBrD4b4EI&sns=em
Frankly, I Don't Care How Due Process Makes You Feel
The most frightening thing about this is the number of people that want a black list of names. what's the next step? stoning them in public, making them wear a special hat?

The job of coursera is to provide access to learning and there it should stop. Coursera should not provide certificate of any kind, most people go there to learn not to become certified on anything, Cheaters will go way if there is no certificate since their purpose is not to learn.
This doesn't even belong on the main page.
This UI they are pushing with Metro (or whatever it's called now) is horrendous. Has nobody at Microsoft ever read a design book?
This is good, I had no idea that DMD was mostly open source as well, nor that LDC was under development.
Whoa $1K? I think I just spent that on hats for my dog last quarter. Seriously, there is NO EXCUSE FOR THIS.
Awesome filter.
Advocating marihuana legalization is supporting thievery
what are the first questions people ask when they get a new smartphone? They don’t want to know the best way to expose data on the home screen; they want to know which apps to download.

Agreed, but if MS shares with the right 'limited audience', it could work out OK. If they have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (still looks doubtful), a few more big names and a few major games, >80% of users will be fine. Us techies won't be, of course.

Don't get me wrong- this still seems like a weird move from MS. But I don't think it leaves them "teetering on the edge of failure".
You wasted precious time from your life with this response. They stopped reading after the first few sentences.
[Web UI modularization] Qworum adds support for single-page applications
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I've been doing this for 7 years with great results and love the zero configuration needed for registering at any site with a unique email address.

In the past few months, however, I've been getting spam that simply brute-forces usernames across my entire domain, leading to hundreds and thousands of spam emails per day. Gmail catches all of it but this makes looking for the occasional false positive very difficult. I've lost a number of emails that ended up in my spam folder between pages and pages of real spam.
Seriously? Metro (/Modern, whatever) has been almost universally praised by designers. You're entitled to your own opinion on it, but suggesting that no-one has read a design book is a bizarre statement.
In many places, you don't want a cool, visually striking bike for commuting, because it's a lot likelier to be the target of thieves.
That doesn't mean the current threat isn't real. This is an implied cum hoc fallacy.
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Care to elaborate? From what I've seen, the UI has gotten pretty good marks in general.
Hoorah for Git on BB. I hadn't visited their website in a while, now I'm motivated to try again :)
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Actually the main problem I see is that there is far too much weight on the arms.
Just search for 'source' next time. Note that DZone also has original articles and in those cases you won't find linking to the source at the end of them.
I'm curious what core principle of design you feel they've violated that they'd have gotten right by having "ever read a design book".

What do you find so objectively appalling about Metro?
Now, what is the comparison between [The Monty Hall] problem and the
sample size blog?

Well, both are about the usage of additional information
to optimize decision making.

Am I the only one feeling disappointed with the payoff here? The answer ends up being "almost nothing".

It's the geek equivalent of TV gossip programs advertising "Find out next what crazy thing Tom Cruise said to Tiger woods . . . " with the result being "They actually didn't talk."
If you enable catch-all addresses on your email account, don't you open yourself up to dictionary spam attacks on your domain? I've woken up to 20,000 incoming emails targeted at my domain. It's not fun. Granted, this was years ago, maybe dictionary attacks are no longer in vogue? I just use mailinator.com anytime I need a one-off email address for a web registration.
Socialism for the rich! Capitalism for everyone else.
Or you could put a RasPi in a waterproof box, running off battery/solar/wall, configured to connect to whatever wifi it can and SSH/SSL to an EC2 instance or similar.

Boom, you can throw it anywhere in a neighborhood or apartment building and access it from the cloud. You could leave one behind at each stop when traveling to get a distributed network solution.

It's still a solution in search of a use case...though they could be used as TOR exit nodes.
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This article is very misleading. While it's true that we have been concerned about Iran's nuclear capabilities for quite a long time, the article omits several concentrated efforts that have prevented the country from developing nuclear capabilities over the years. For example, in the late eighties, Israel bombed a nuclear reactor before its completion. If Israel's bombing or other efforts hadn't been carried out over the years, Iran would have nuclear capability. Several times over the last 25 years, Iran has in fact been close to having nuclear capabilities.
Aha, thanks, missed that.
Reminds me of the Mac Mini colocation, but more extreme. Just want to throw in that I have a KVM with Edis and they are a solid hosting company in that price range.
I imagine this was written more as an open letter to Google, i.e. it is addressed to a wider audience and written with an eye for publication, rather than in the expectation of a dialogue with the HR department at a huge corporation.
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This particular bakery was pretty legendary for a long time in the bay area.
And what sets those upper limits?

In general: money. Buying more of the most performant equipment available.

So. It's an economic designation.
Agreed. I also like to test my documentation (http://packages.python.org/manuel/).
I don't think that windows coming late to the party is going to be a huge deal. It seems that rather than shooting for being a replacement for ios and android they are shooting for the niche that blackberry holds. Also, they only need to get a moderate amount of users to motivate app developers to explore an untapped market.
Perhaps, depending on B2's self-confidence. There's still that category of people that ask questions for other reasons than being interested in the answers to those questions.
When I type in the address bar I can't see the URL's pop up like I used to. All I see are the favicons. When I have a window open and try to open another one Firefox freezes and crash. There are a few more things but those are the major problems. I never had a problem with a Firefox update before until this morning.
First I read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy in the book from from 190x. Yes, the beginning of the twentieth century. They stimulated facial muscles with electricity and it allowed them to create emotions' expressions and classify them. So Ekman isn't even first to do that.

I see the FACS as a modern extension of the physiognomy. With all the scientific foundation of the latter.
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I agree. I definitely the guidance it provides - it helps me to align my interests with open source. Kinda like online dating with an open source project. I was enthusiastic to contribute to the Django project but had no clue what to do.
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Indian Railways has numerous monitoring stations. (mainly at railway stations) These monitoring stations update train's location when trains pass 'em.

In between such points, IR may know train's realtime location, but it is not made public.

Update

It is mentioned on the site that there are 6000 monitoring stations. Which means that, on average, there is a monitoring station every 11 kms (66k Km/ 6000). Considering an average speed of 80kmph, the location shown on the app can at max be 8.25 minutes old.
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Is this for real? I would like to see a video where it's not a parking lot or an empty square. The guy seems to be visibly trampling around corners in the park. I can't imagine what could happen in a sharp corner at anything above 2 km/h